Map Game
Ursula Hennessey ·
Apr 6, 2011 at 6:26pm
I got too many wrong. Don't tell Claire.
How about you?
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Aug '10
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Done. Had some problems with Western Sahara (it doesn't hint Morocco).
Jul '10
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Getting the last ten was pretty comical. Glad there isn't a scoring element.
Jan '11
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it was iffy. . .but let Clair know that I got Turkey on the first try!
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If only the USSR hadn't broken up I would have had a perfect score. Too many 'stans that I never quite sorted out. Until now.
May '10
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Mixed up Tajikstan with Kyrgyzstan. I wish they had one for cities.
Edited on Apr 6, 2011 at 6:54pmRe: Map Game
Yes! I got *that* one correct. The Stans, among others (if I'm being honest), killed me.
May '10
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I did pretty well I think. Mixed up a couple of the 'Stans and a couple of the African countries. Guessed and surprised myself on the Gulf States. But I have been to a number o the countries on the map.
May '10
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Same.
Nov '10
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Switched Bahrain and Yemen and switched Tajikstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Is this the first step to Ricochet Jeopardy? I'll take 'stans for $100!
Edited on Apr 6, 2011 at 7:09pmNov '10
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Wow. It took my eight-year-old and me a long time. Some of it I attribute to the irritability of the arrow, but geography was not my strong suit.
How did you get to the website this was on, though?
Jun '10
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Same here. Had no idea which 'stan was which, got all the rest right.
Jul '10
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I flipflopped the Tajiks and Uzbeks, and Bahrain and Qatar. A far cry from my old National Geographic globe!
May '10
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It looks like a majority of Ricochet members agree: this game has the 'Stans sideways.
Aug '10
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This discriminates against iPad !
May '10
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I thought I was pretty smart, until (like others) I ran into the 'stans. I did not study these in school since it was all USSR then, but I suppose that is no excuse. I had trouble with Western Sahara too. I want to try tomorrow with my 9 year old.
May '10
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Beat it, but I definitely needed to brush up. Thanks.
I didn't know Western Sahara existed.
Palestinians, you're on world maps. You're a free nation. Act like it.
May '10
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I was too old to see Bahrain. I thought it was a trick. But then, squinting, there it was.
May '10
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Managed to get zero wrong. Thank you National Geographic.
Nov '10
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I think I was rated "smarter than a 5 year old". Did ok until the *-stans :-)
The site distributes some disturbing propaganda.
This page on Islam, for example, has a whole flurry of hagiographic canards --amounting to indoctrination, not education. There are too many to list, so I'll just mention two instances of feeble Arabic lexicography. In the first case, they point out that "Jihad" is not translated as "Holy War" but "to strive in the way of God". Well, ok that's a reasonable facsimile of literal meaning though not a direct translation. But it is not the principal LEGAL ISLAMIC meaning of the term as defined in accepted Sharia texts (my copy of Um Dat al-Salik defines the term "to war against non-Muslims" and invokes the related term " 'mujahada': warfare to establish the religion", and the entire chapter makes clear that armed religious violence is intended). In the second case, "Islam" is incorrectly translated "peace". It's literal meaning is "submission".
In the first case a literal meaning is used to deflect from the functional meaning; in the second the literal meaning is eschewed for deceptive fluff, both times missing the key connotation.
Edited on Apr 6, 2011 at 9:25pmMar '11
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Always cross up the 'Stans too. Embarrassed to say I crossed Bahrain and Qatar too.
But Palestine was tagged "Currently Palestinian Territory" - just seem to be an implied "for now" at the end, as if Israel were to be tagged "Soon to be Palestinian territory". Creepy and subtle.